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US 2013/0159295 A1Published application
Method for identifying and ranking news sources
OwnerJohn Nicholas Grossinventor
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Abstract
A search engine and/or news aggregator considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users.
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A method of presenting news content to a user with a computing system comprising:
- a) automatically determining a target geographic region for a first event with the computing system by analyzing content for news stories relating to said first event;
- c) automatically selecting one or more local sources with the computing system to collect local content for stories associated with said first event;
- wherein said one or more local sources include news sources within or proximate to said target geographic region;
- d) presenting news stories to a user with the computing system within a graphical interface based on a news ranking determined for said news stories;
- wherein for said presenting said local content from said local sources is given a higher news ranking than content from other reference content sources by the computing system for stories that are associated with said first event.
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A method of presenting news content to a user with a computing system comprising:
- a) identifying a first event, which first event is identified in electronic news coverage in a plurality of news stories from one or more content sources;
- b) automatically identifying a geographic region associated with said first event with the computing system based on analyzing content in said plurality of news stories describing said first event;
- c) automatically selecting one or more local sources with the computing system to collect local content on such first event;
- wherein said one or more local sources include content sources selected at least in part based on their presence or proximity to said geographic region and/or prior reporting of events associated with said geographic region;
- d) presenting news for said first event to a user with the computing system within a graphical interface including from said one or more local sources;
- wherein said local content is given a news rank which is higher than ranking of reference content sources by the computing system when presenting said news on said first event to said user.
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A method of presenting news content to a user with a computing system within a graphical interface comprising:
- a) identifying a first breaking news story containing content for a first event;
- wherein said first breaking news story is determined by the computing system to be a first instance of an electronic publication of content for said first event from a set of reference content sources;
- b) automatically determining a target region associated with said first event by analyzing content of said first breaking news story;
- c) automatically selecting one or more local sources with the computing system to collect local content for stories associated with said first event;
- wherein said one or more local sources include news sources within or proximate to said geographic region;
- d) automatically identifying story updates to said first event by examining content published electronically by said one or more local sources;
- wherein for said identifying step (d) said local content is given a news rank higher than rankings of content from other content sources for identifying story updates associated with said first event to be presented to the user within the graphical interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.